Wednesday, December 10, 2014

ScienceDaily: Consumer Electronics News

ScienceDaily: Consumer Electronics News


Germanium: Semiconductor milestone

Posted: 09 Dec 2014 09:03 AM PST

A laboratory at Purdue University provided a critical part of the world's first transistor in 1947 -- the purified germanium semiconductor -- and now researchers there are on the forefront of a new germanium milestone. The team has created the first modern germanium circuit -- a complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) device -- using germanium as the semiconductor instead of silicon.

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